Pine Creek Railroad posted:Lee,
Glad you liked the NASA Space Shuttle Simulator, and had a good time.
each of us Sr NASA Engineers received a Presidential 1st Shuttle Flight Award with Young and Crippens personal thanks, a piece of the actual Columbia Space Shuttle, made into a NASA Coin affixed to it. The award is one of my prize possessions, shown here with my 263E Tin Plate Train, I thought you might like to see it, because of your interest in both NASA and Trains.
Most cool!
FYI, that's the Orion capsule sim at Huntsville, not a STS one (though it's tough to tell from my photo). If you can tell, I'm wearing a NASA-issued cap for the EFT-1 test flight launch, which took place about a month after that photo was taken (and I'd just come back from KSC, seeing it on the pad, getting ready to go).